Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.
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Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.
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GTM Enablement ManagerTrains and coaches salespeople and other customer-facing teams through workshops, role plays and programs that lift sales results.
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Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.